Ms. Fouzia Shaheen
Ms. Fouzia Shaheen acquired her master degree from international Islamic University Islamabad. Earned her B.Ed. from AIOU and M.Phil English (literature) form University of Gujrat. Her Academic career began as a part time lecturer at IIUI . She rendered her services as lecturer in F.J College Gujrat, later on Joined UOG as a lecturer. She has supervised many theses of M. Phil and BS on various topics of literature. She has served as Master Trainer under the INTEL Teaching Program, conducted workshop as HEC Teacher Training and served as trainer under ICT-SAT Program. As a writer she has produced a few articles for English news paper, translated an Urdu book into English and reviewed different books on philosophy. Her research articles have been published in journals. In future she intends to work on Islam and modern western thoughts.
Interested in comparative literature.
- M.Phil,University of Gujrat
- B.Ed,Allama Iqbal Open University
- Master,International Islamic University
- Chief Organizer Cultural Week Organized cultural week at IIUI.
- Resource Person (Result Compilation Declamation Contest) International Islamic University, Islamabad.
| Student Name | Degree | Title | Status / Completed Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aleena Gulzar | MS | Non Literary Influence on Bekett and Iqbal’s Selected Works The study of influence is a significant branch of comparative literature, it is an interdisciplinary field in which the practitioner studies literature across national borders through time, languages, styles, and boundaries between literature and other arts. Non-literary influence can be traced between different cultures, ages and nations. The present research aims to point out the non-literary influence on Iqbal and Beckett, which comprises the influence of circumstances, culture, and atmosphere. The same circumstances, culture and atmosphere which influenced both writers and lead them to address same issues, though differently, offer a big scope for a comparative study. Being influenced by circumstances, culture and atmosphere, they introduced the same ideas such as nothingness, absurdity, religiosity, significance of human beings, existence of God in their works. Both writers wrote under the same influence but conjure contrary directions. The research is qualitative in nature and it takes the mode of comparative method to provide an insight into the diversity of attitudes towards the concept of influence. The research work explores how two different writers, despite their differences of country, age and nationality, continued to write similar ideas, and how the two writers incorporated these ideas into their poetry and drama. This research work examines the circumstances that inspired the two writers to talk about similar ideas. By comparing their work the research study will find out how the two writers are alike even belonging to different time period. The research aims to point out the non-literary influence on Iqbal and Beckett, which comprises all those factors that inspired them to ponder life, self, existence, religiosity, and nothingness. The concept of non-literary influence has been selected as a frame work to conduct this research. | 2021 |
| Faiza Kanwal | MS | GENDER DYSPHORIA IN HASHMI’S ONE HALF FROM THE EAST AND ELLIS’THE BREADWINNER Women in Afghanistan under Taliban patriarchal regime are confirmed to be inferior to men. A son is considered a great support and honor for the family while a girl is taken as a burden. In order to maintain the prestige and livelihood, the younger daughter is transitioned into a boy by the families who do not have a son. This unusual practice is called bacha posh which causes gender identity disorder named gender dysphoria because they are stuck in a situation between two worlds. But this dual identity affects them in negative way; however, it has positive impacts as well on the lives of transitioned girls. This study is an effort to scrutinize gender dysphoria in One Half from the East and The Breadwinner. The former is written by an American writer Nadia Hashmi and the later is produced by a Canadian writer Deborah Ellis. The texts of selected novels have been analyzed using research methodology of ‘Textual Analysis’. Mark A. Yarhouse’s concept of gender dysphoria, dealing with negative and positive outcomes, has been used as a framework to arbitrate women’s psychological and social condition in the selected novels. The research explores how gender inequality is making the girls oppressed and submissive leading them towards psychological and emotional trauma. It further exposes problems faced by young bacha posh related to identity crisis, anxiety, loss of their female sacredness, loss of belongings, shame, isolation, unhealthy terms with others, emotional turmoil and the agony of retransition at the stage of puberty. The present research, further, explores the positive aspect of gender dysphoria. It strives to illuminate this notion by illustrating how the girls exercise their dual identity as their strength by developing a sense of self-confidence, exercising both feminine and masculine attributes, resistance against stereotypical norms, assisting others and exploring new ways to exercise the freedom.Keywords: Afghan Women, Taliban regime, Patriarchy, bacha posh, gender transition, gender inequality, gender dysphoria, retransition | 2020 |
- Served as Master Trainer under the INTEL Teaching Program in UOG, FJ. College Gujrat.
-
1. Tahir Rafique, Fouzia Shaheen, Asad Ullah, Dr. Mudasar Jahan “THIRTY DAYS IN SEPTEMBER BY MAHESH DATTANI: A RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL STUDY” Jahan-e-Tahqeeq, July 2024 DOI:
-
2. 1Fouzia Shaheen, 2 Behzad Anwar* and 3 Shamshad Rasool “From Self Reliance to Spiritual Delusion: A Metaphorical Interpretation of Hawthorne’s Short Stories” Social Science Journal, December 2023 DOI: